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17 Mar 2020

On The Pull 18/03/2020

New comics are due to hit the shelves on Wednesday so here’s a look ahead at some of the books we’ll be picking up this week along with a full list of titles that will be available from Paradox Comics.

Jo S: Blasting my 'one new start per week' rule pretty much into space, my mid-Mad March list racks up an inexcusable four issue one bonanza. I'll skim over Starship Down as you can catch the skinny on that in my Cover To Cover review, plus I talked about Artemis And The Assassin #1 for the Shipping Forecast too.

The other halves of my new start double date are: Wicked Things #1 - John Allison and Max Sarin spin out of their Giant Days success with a story about Charlotte Grote, former child detective now teen framed for murder. Our own Andy H is still struggling to come to terms with the completion of the Giant Days main series and his misty-eyed reviews are enough to have me taking the chance at this new start - and, c'mon, you expect me to pass on something called X-Ray Robot? Michael Allred writes and draws a story of a futuristic robot science hero who can see through dimensions - oh boy, that sounds too good to miss!

Something Is Killing The Children hits issue #6 this week and, after the traumatic events of #5, you could be forgiven for hoping for a little peace for our monster-hunting crew but, let's face it, those murderous forest dwelling nightmares don't take a day off! Last month's BANG! #1 was an original, twisty, hyper-clever take on the international spy genre from the brilliant mind of Matt Kindt making issue #2 unmissable, and while we're talking brilliant creative minds, Jeff Lemire continues to grow his Family Tree: his skill for making people living in an impossible physical world feel real and relevant is astonishing.

Wrapping up with a couple of Marvel favourites: I've raved about Valkyrie: Jane Foster repeatedly, the art, the story, the lettering - this is a perfect package for me. But there's only one king on my pull list this week: Kelly Thompson is smashing it with Deadpool in this series so this one takes the prime spot for me. In increasingly weird times, opening up a fresh batch of books is a high spot in every week for me - long live comics!